Recently added articles from Journal of Phenomenological Psychology:
The nature and role of phenomenological psychology in Alfred Schutz.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract The essay reviews how phenomenological psychology can draw on Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in order to clarify the foundations of the cultural sciences and then explicates the theory of this psychology implicit in Schutz's oeuvre. Max Weber ...
The phenomenology of koan meditation in Zen Buddhism.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract Zen students described their experiences when working with koans, and a phenomenological method was used to identify the structure of those experiences. Zen koans are statements or stories developed in China and Japan by Zen masters in order to help students transform ...
Toward a phenomenological psychology of art appreciation.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract Experiences with art have been of longstanding concern for phenomenologists, yet the psychological question of the appearing of arc appreciation has not been addressed. This article attends to this lack, exemplifying the merits of a phenomenological psychological ...
Trauma and human existence.(Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Stolorow, R.D. (2007). Trauma and human existence: Autobiographical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical reflections. New York: The Analytic Press / Taylor and Francis, 62 pages, ISBNO-88163-467-0 (Paper). Reviewed by Mufid James Hannush, Review Editor, Journal of ...
On the Way to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Emad, Parvis (2007). On the Way to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. Madison, Wi: The University of Wisconsin Press, xvii t 236 pages, ISBN 0-299-22220-9, $55.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Frank Schalow, University of New Orleans, aurhor of The Incarnality of Being: The ...
Laws of seeing.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Metzger, W. (2006). Laws of seeing (L. Spillmann, S. Lehar, M. Stromeyer, & M. Wertheimer, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, xxv + 203 pp. (hardcover) (ISBN: 0-262-13467-5) (Original work published 1936) $48.00 Reviewed by Thomas F. Cloonan, New York City, New York ...
The World At A Glance.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Edward S. Casey. (2007). The World At A Glance. Bloomington & Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. 491pp., ISBN 13 978-0-253-21897-1. $ 34.95. (paperback). Reviewed by Ingo Farin, University of Tasmania, Australia. Casey's book is a study of the glance and ...
Todres, L. (2007). Embodied inquiry.(Embodied Inquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for Research)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Todres, L. (2007). Embodied inquiry;: Phenomenological touchstones for research, psychotherapy and spirituality. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-51775-7, $ 74.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Steen Hailing, Professor of Psychology, Seattle University ...
Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Brothers, Doris (2008). Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis. New York: The Analytic Press / Taylor and Francis group, 223 pages, ISBN 0-13:978-0-88163-478-5 (softcover). Reviewed by Edwin L. Hersch, author of From Philosophy to Psychotherapy: A ...
Wronka, J. Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Wronka, J. Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Profissions. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008, xi + 335 pp., S39.95(Paper). This book represents an effort to center issues and discussions of human rights around ...
Books received.(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Ahlstrom, K. (2007). Constructive analysis: A. study in episternalogical methodology. Goteborg, Sweden: Goteborg University Press, 308 pages, ISBN 978-91-7346-603-5 (Paper). Brothers, D. (2008). Toward a psychology of uncertainty: 'Irauma-centered psychoanalysis. New York: The ...
A dance between the reduction and reflexivity: explicating the "phenomenological psychological attitude".(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract This article explores the nature of "the phenomenological attitude," which is understood as the process of retaining a wonder and openness to the world while reflexively restraining pre-understandings, as it applies to psychological research. A brief history identifies ...
Concerning a serious misunderstanding of the essence of the phenomenological method in psychology.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract In an earlier article, Edwards (1991) tried to establish that the Duquesne Phenomenological Research Method (DPRM) was simply a particular type of Case Study research method (CSRM) and he also reproached users of the DPRM for not developing theory. This article rebuts ...
Conceptualizing health and illness.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract This article is focused on the notions of health and illness, as they appear in the context of philosophical reflections on finitude and contingency of human existence. Criticizing Heidegger's approach to health and illness which is based on the Aristotelian concept of ...
Desire for higher education in first-generation hispanic college students enrolled in an academic support program: a phenomenological analysis.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Numerous empirical studies have been conducted to examine first-generation college students, those individuals whose parents have not attended college. Their personality characteristics, cognitive development, academic preparation, and first-year performance have all ...
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Fink, B. (2007). Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 301 pp., ISBN 978-0-393-70508-9, $35.00 (hardcover). Lacan's psychoanalytic theory has often been left out of clinical practice in ...
The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Zelazo, P. D., Moscovitch, M., & Thompson, E. Eds. (2007). Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Cambridgc: Cambridge UniversityPress. The problem of consciousness was once considered to be the select purview of phenomenologists and psychoanalysts. Over the past two decades it ...
The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Rojcewicz, Richard (2006). The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger. Albany, NY: New York: State University of New York Press, viii + 248 pages, ISBN 0-7914-6642-6, $24.95. If decades from now someone were to write an intellectual history of the 20th century, a chapter ...
Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has always been a tortured one, going all the way back to Freud's relatively late essay, "The Question of a Weltanschauung (1933)," as to the irrelevance of philosophical thinking in the psychoanalytic situation with his provocative ...
Sexuality and parrhesia in the phenomenology of psychological development: the flesh of human communicative embodiment and the game of intimacy.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract In the three published volumes of his History of Sexuality Foucault reflects on themes of anxiety situated in the Christian doctrine of the flesh that led to a pastoral ministry establishing the rules of a general social economy--rules that enabled, over time, a ...